Owen and Montagu heard them talk about ordering some brandy, and then arrange to have a "jollification," as they called it, that evening. From Wordnik.com. [Eric, or Little by Little] Reference
Jordaens can — a drunken jollification of boors and doxies, or. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
There was a great jollification over the fish supper that night, and. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Fillips of questionable pedigree overlooked in mid frenetic jollification. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
Arthur Poe and Bosey Reiter were the leading spirits in the jollification. From Wordnik.com. [Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball] Reference
A promising Sunday morning jollification ahead, most troubles left behind. From Wordnik.com. [PROOF]
A day's successful hunting, followed by a famous supper and jollification under. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Gleefully at times they would talk of the jollification they would make when the. From Wordnik.com. [The Colored Regulars in the United States Army] Reference
Executions were then one of the best of all good excuses for a picnic and jollification. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
Independence; secondly, an oration on the subject; lastly, procession and jollification. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
Then they celebrate their victory by some sort of jollification that lasts half the night. From Wordnik.com. [Certain Success] Reference
Weddings offered frontier folks special opportunities for jollification of a rowdy variety. From Wordnik.com. [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference
Sometimes, when the marines or sailors had any special jollification, they were permitted to invite. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
The Fourth of July was the only holiday observed on the frontier with organized community jollification. From Wordnik.com. [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference
Portions of the paragraph are not too clear, but we should say there was no doubt about the jollification. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14] Reference
On the day succeeding the marriage, our light-hearted Benedict abandoned himself to another jollification. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The performances of the evening having closed amid rapturous applause, a good jollification was resolved on. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
So I went over and we had another jollification, hurrahing, singing, shouting for McKinley, until we made ourselves hoarse. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
Another records how souvenirs and food were exchanged, and how jollification and football were indulged in with the Germans. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
“We have had a fine Monarchical and Religious jollification,” remarked an illustrious reveler in the doorway as he went. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
Yet again, we've had the reports of people trying to find ways of turning Christmas into a bland and empty winter jollification. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop's Christmas Day sermon in Canterbury Cathedral] Reference
Nor would you consider it an occasion for especial jollification the day you erected the scantlings around the first floor joists. From Wordnik.com. [Certain Success] Reference
Let the servants have a grand jollification downstairs to celebrate my arrival, and give them what they like to drink my health in. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
At the landing Laura Atkins called a halt and invited every one present to a jollification in her room that night in honor of Elfreda. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
Then the ladies were pulled round the ship, and, when about a mile ahead of her, we drank the champagne and had a regular jollification. From Wordnik.com. [A First Year in Canterbury Settlement] Reference
That evening's jollification was the last for the participants until fateful mid-year, with its burden of examinations should come and go. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference
One need not say that there was jollification. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2] Reference
With Crockett it had ever been a day of jollification. From Wordnik.com. [David Crockett] Reference
It was to have been a day of jollification with Marraine. From Wordnik.com. [Killykinick] Reference
However, I don't expect they very often have a jollification like this. From Wordnik.com. [Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia] Reference
I shall go down with you on Wednesday in time for the jollification on Thursday. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
And now and then his two friends would come and drag him off for an evening's jollification. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunger] Reference
At half-past eight we'll go to The Beeches and finish the evening with a general jollification. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation] Reference
He says he was the only sober man in the crowd -- been out on a jollification tour of ten days. From Wordnik.com. [No Clue A Mystery Story] Reference
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